Instead, he'll serve as the network's leading campaign consultant for the presidential election, something he's done for the past three years with the network.

CNN executive Ken Jautz said in an internal memo the move was simply to improve political coverage for the year.

“This is John’s seventh presidential campaign, fourth with CNN, and making him available across our programming lineup allows us to better tap his skills and experience, especially on the ground reporting in major battleground states and among critical voting blocs.”

Naturally, a change was going to begin to take place at CNN, and King's move to presidential correspondent seems natural, given his program's declining ratings against competition to all but CNBC's "Mad Money" and HLN programming.

In its place, Wolf Blitzer's "The Situation Room" will expand to three hours at the end of June.